Sherwood v. Moelle
Decision Date | 29 October 1888 |
Citation | 36 F. 478 |
Parties | SHERWOOD v. MOELLE |
Court | U.S. District Court — District of Nebraska |
Montgomery & Jeffrey, for plaintiff.
Harwood Ames & Kelly, for defendant.
Before BREWER, Circuit Judge, and DUNDY, District Judge.
This case is now submitted on petition for rehearing. When first submitted it was decided upon the proposition that one who takes title by a mere quitclaim deed cannot be considered a bona fide purchaser, and a decree was ordered accordingly in favor of the defendant and cross-complainant. In this petition for rehearing that proposition is challenged, as well as its application to the facts in this case. Of the soundness of the proposition as a general one I have no doubt, although it may be possibly subject to some limitations. It has been recognized by many courts, and frequently affirmed by the supreme court of the United States. In the recent cast of Johnson v Williams, 37 Kan. 179, 14 P. 537, Mr. Justice VALENTINE who is one of the most painstaking and thoughtful judges I know, has collated the various authorities, and in the following guarded language states the conclusions of himself and the other members of that court, as well as the principal reasons in support of the proposition:
I do not care, however, to enter into a discussion of that general proposition, or consider...
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